INTERNATIONAL: Hot

In London, where any temperature above
80° is called a heat wave, it was so hot last week that ten extra
waiters were engaged to serve cooling drinks to perspiring legislators
in the House of Commons terrace restaurant. A woman fainted from heat
in a Gravesend bus and, as her collapse wedged her inextricably between
the seats, the whole bus had to be driven to the hospital. An
unseasonable drought half ruined the strawberry crop (strawberries and
clotted Devonshire cream is a favorite English dish this time of year),
but the countryside had seldom looked greener. Elsewhere in Europe...